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Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions

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Legal experts warn that Meta's new terms allow scraped content to be used for all advertising and business products, representing a substantial expansion of the company's data permissions.

Key points

  • •The new terms permit the use of scraped content for all "advertising and business products."
  • •This change is described as a substantial expansion of Meta's permissions.
  • •Legal experts have issued warnings regarding these broad scraping permissions.
#Regulation, Ethics & Society#Major Players#Meta
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